Love Poem: The Thing About Poetry
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Written by: Erin Beckett

The Thing About Poetry

The thing about poetry, 
there’s too much blandishment
placed upon words 
never to be fully understood,

like a mirror 
reflecting speckles of light 
at a corridors end. 

Because there’s not a thing
to be felt without imprint 
of a thousand other stories 
pressed upon it.

Nor a smile that doesn’t 
carry a secret.